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Construction has started in our Home Theater Project. I'm building a dedicated theater in the Bonus Room.
We moved into this house in July 6th of 2006, and I have reading the forum and planning this Home Theater for years. but I have never had a room big enough to put a Home Theater in. and now I do, it is 28X20 room.
I would like to thank everyone on AVS forum who have posted and/or answered my questions on designing my HT.as you will see in my build I have used a lot of ideas from other AVS membersand changed it around a little bit.

Home Theater Specs: 28X20 Front Projection Home Theater with a built in Pioneer Elite 60 rear projection TV for the every day TV in the stage.
And then a 115 Seymour AV Electronic roll up Audio Transparent Screen. And that Seymour AV Screen will roll down in front of the Pioneer when we watch Movies.
The acoustical treatment will consist of the standard 1 linacoustic/batting covered with GOM black at the bottom and for the top I have found a really nice looking fabric. On top of the Fabric I will have Base board, Chair Rail and Crown molding.

Great work. I'm envious of the wood you were able to get for the stage. Looks like Fir or gasp! Redwood. Reminds me of the years I sent in SF. Getting Fir that was straight and stayed straight was a pleasure that I didn't appreciate until I moved to the nations capital and have to put up with this yellow southern pine crap they sell here.

I read of your plans to go with the Sandmans SMX roll down screen and wondered looking at your design that it doesn't look like the speakers will be behind the screen so the question is why bother with SMX AT material?

By the way I have a roll of SMX sitting in my office for the day I can start my HT2.0. But first gotta finish 1.0

Hey Mike,
I did anchor the top to mach the stage...I don't have any pick of all the material I put inside the stage.....but I did....But I didn't put any sand because this room is upstairs...and I put the roofing paper under and in be tween the plywood.

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Originally Posted by madtexan

Pretty cool stage design. I haven't seen the idea of cutting many slices into the 2X boards to make a curve like that.

Did you anchor it to the floor somehow? I didn't see any screw holes. Also I was wondering if you put some kind of absorbent material inside the stage cavities to cut down on resonance?

Hey Big,
I'm not sure what kind of Plywood that is....but it's not bad.
You will see in my pic below that the SMX screen will cover the center speaker.

Big.....by the way thank you for telling me how to post the photos..

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Originally Posted by BIGmouthinDC

Great work. I'm envious of the wood you were able to get for the stage. Looks like Fir or gasp! Redwood. Reminds me of the years I sent in SF. Getting Fir that was straight and stayed straight was a pleasure that I didn't appreciate until I moved to the nations capital and have to put up with this yellow southern pine crap they sell here.

I read of your plans to go with the Sandmans SMX roll down screen and wondered looking at your design that it doesn't look like the speakers will be behind the screen so the question is why bother with SMX AT material?

By the way I have a roll of SMX sitting in my office for the day I can start my HT2.0. But first gotta finish 1.0

OK I get it now.....at first was thinking - why such big stage with such small screen (blue tape) but now I undertstand the use of the RPTV for use when shooting pool, and then down comes the SMX for Front Projection and movies.

One thing came to mind when looking at the plan, assuming its to scale - the first row looks to be about 1x screen width (9' for a 110" screen) - are you sure you want to go that close? If you've thought about it, and do, cool, just in case you haven't considered it.

Hey Brad,
That layout is not to scale.
And just keep in mind..that pool table will be out of the room and the seats will be push back.

By the way I took a look at your HT......It's looking good

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Originally Posted by Brad Horstkotte

Stage setup is looking great!

One thing came to mind when looking at the plan, assuming its to scale - the first row looks to be about 1x screen width (9' for a 110" screen) - are you sure you want to go that close? If you've thought about it, and do, cool, just in case you haven't considered it.

Looking great so far!! I work down here in the OC as well in Lake Forest. It's rare to see a HT of that size in HB. Should be a great room when it's all said and done. I look forward to seeing your continued progress.

Hey Guy's,
I got a bathroom ceiling fan for my equip closet and I have a Receiver that has AC out puts on it. Can I just hook the fan up to the out puts? So when I turn the receiver on the fan will come on? Or do I need to run a Thermostat?

Take a look.
This will be my equip closet.
The before photo you can see that the door is on the outside of the frame. And I wanted to cover the door with the same fabric as the wall's and I wanted to have the chair rail continue across the door. But I wanted to make it look there was no door on that wall...so what I decided to do is...make two doors one on the top for the equip and the one on the bottom would be for the DVD's.
And I will inset the doors in the frame...so then that way it is all nice and flat and the chair rail will split up the two doors.

Hey Brad,
That layout is not to scale.
And just keep in mind..that pool table will be out of the room and the seats will be push back.

By the way I took a look at your HT......It's looking good

Oh cool, I didn't read enough into your comment about the pool table. Thanks re: my HT - pity all I have for my efforts so far is a SketchUp model. I live in the general area, so I'll be tracking your thread and awaiting your grand opening!

I'm going to make some really nice dark fabric drapes for the windows...And then you will see no light.

Cool.

Light is harder to control then one would think. I have two normal size windows in my theater. I used Gila Black Window Film (room darkening) on the outside of the window, normal 2" plantation window blinds (same as in the entire house) and then some nice black velvet drapes for mine.